The National Household Hazardous Waste Forum has launched a campaign to help local authorities implement their campaigns for safe use, storage and disposal of garden chemicals. At this time of year, garden chemicals can make up over 50% of chemicals returned to household waste recycling centres. There has also been a spate of panic induced …
There’s up to 35% off at By Nature’s Summer Sale. It’s worth stopping by to see if anything grabs you from their wide range of womanswear, menswear, childrens and babies clothes, bedding, towels, eco deco collection, toiletries and stationery. How do you fancy being an eco-superhero? I am woman… ecowoman! Take that litter louts…
Its clear that the business sector has a major role to play in helping to protect the environment, and governments worldwide are encouraging businesses to do their bit to achieve goals on sustainable consumption and production, and corporate responsibility. So while Christmas is often seen as a time of excess and commercial gain, one company …
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The Happy Planet Index is a new global measure of progress, calculating the environmental cost with which countries deliver lives of different length and happiness, revealing for the first time that happiness doesn’t have to cost the Earth. Launched today by nef (the new economics foundation), the Happy Planet Index is the first of its …
Photographer Susannah Sayler and a team of researchers, writers and designers have set about collecting images of global warming and are working to make them visible to the widest possible audience with The Canary Project. For the month of July, images from The Canary Project will be displayed on the sides of buses in Denver …
Fashion designer and campaigner Katherine Hamnett is guest editor of the Big Issue‘s Alternative Energy review, available on the streets of London from Big Issue vendors from this week. “I have been campaigning on many environmental issues for the last 20 years, including for a worldwide nuclear ban. Suddenly, the British Government wants to build …
Back in April we were wondering, along with the folks at Better Thinking (“a unique team of thinkers and doers”), what makes the perfect t-shirt? Well, they’ve been working really hard to answer that question, and now have a detailed report out that simplifies and summarises everything they’ve learnt about different ways to colour fabric, …
The Dutch Advisory for the Landscape asked designers to come up with a new generation wind-turbine. One Architecture, Ton Matton and NL architect (collectively known at 100MW Mountain) did just that with this bouquet of “flower power” windmills. Via: Ecofriend
Starting tomorrow and for the first time in the UK, tuc tucs will be on the streets of Brighton, making getting about the seaside town just a little bit greener and lots more fun. The fleet of 12 vehicles are virtually emission free because they are run on CNG (compressed natural gas), and the vehicle …